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SPBCIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,485, dated May 13, 1884.

Application filed October 22, 1883. (No model.)

To aZZ whom ib may concern:

Be it known that I, SoLoMoN LINDENBER- GER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Oho, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boat0ars, of which the fol lowing is a specification.

M invention relates to certain im rove-' ments in boat-oars; and it eonsists in an improved method of coppering the paddle end of the oar, and in using, in connection with the rowlook, .a removable flexible or partially flexible ring for holding the oar in proper position, and for preventing its falling into the water should the operator release his hold upon the handle. I attain my object by mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 isa view of the entire oar, showing the edge of the paddle, and at its lower end is shown the coppered part above mentioned, and near the upper extremity is shown the removable flexible ring. Fig. 2 is also aview of the entire oar, showing the fiat side of the paddle, and near its upper end is also shown the removable flexible ring and a rowlock of modern construction. Fig. 3 is a View in perspective taken between thelines a and b, Figs. l and 2, showing the rowlock and the removable flexible ring separated from each other. Fig. 4 is an enlarged plan of the copper covering as it appears when out into the proper form and after the rivet-holes have been punched and otherwise completed ready to bend about the lower extremity of the paddle end of the oar, as shown in Fig; 5. Fig. 5 is also an enlarged planof the extremity of. the

v paddle as it appears when coppered and riveted and otherwise completed ready for use. Fg. 6 is an edge view of Fig. 5 taken on line (Z, showing the appearance of the ears D and of the edge joint made by the folding of the copper about the end of the paddle, and also showing the method of fastening the said copper by riveting through the several folds of the wrap and the wood and heading the ends of the rivets.

The shaft or handle E is commonly made either round or oval and of a curved or tapering form, and generally partly covered with leather, as shown at G. The paddle endHis made in various forms and often curved, as

The old method of accomplishing this object was very faulty and inadequate. in doubling the sheet, closing the ends upon the edge of the paddle, nailing the said copper to the wood by punching through one side, driving the nail through the perforation and through the Wood against the eopper upon the opposite side, which caused the end striking the copper to double u'p or clinch.

My improvement consists, first, n riveting the said copper to the oar by passing a rivet through the several folds of the wrap and heading its ends upon the wrap, as shown at K, Figs. 2, 5, and 6 3 also, in the novel form of the copper wrap having the ears D, which are preferably made to fold upon opposite sides,

as shown in Fig. 5; but the Sheet may be cut.

in such a form as that the cars D may all fold upon one side without chauging the nature of 'my invention.

The second part of my invention relatos to th e'removable flexible ring I, which becomes necessary in consequence of the change in the form of the rowlock J, which is now preferably made in a circular or ring form, as shown at J', Fig. 3, instead of being bifurcatedin the old and well-known manner. The old and well-knownstyle of ring which my flexible ring supersedes was commonly made up of strips of leather wound about the shaft and nailed,and,in combination with the bifurcated rowlock, it gave no inconvenienee; but when the ring or circular rowlock Game into use, as it was necessary to place the said rowlock be- It consisted' tween the paddle and the ring, the ring must l IOO covered With Copper 01' other met-exilio plate mcked thereto. I :un also mare that L 11011- elustic ring for holding :L boat-oar 1'11 position relatively to the rowlok has been applied and tacked to the om' n a welhknown man ner. Ido not therefore claim these, broadly.

I am fiunilar With the patents of Mason Britbon, No. 191,923, June 12, 1877, and of MichaelF. Davis, No. 282,856, August 7, 1883, and. diselam :my inventon therein contaned; but

\Vhat I do 01111111 as my invention, and desire to Secure by Letters Patent, is V As a new article of manufacture, an om* SOLOMON LINDENBERGEP. \Vitnessesz T. CALLAGHAN, J. R. VADE. 

